Nation: Police in Colorado Springs shot it out with a gunman inside the offices of the local Planned Parenthood yesterday afternoon. Police convinced the gunman to give up, but only after three people were killed, including a police officer. Four other officers were among the nine people wounded.

Police identified the suspect as 57-year-old Robert Lewis Dear, but gave no other information about him. They didn’t know the motive for the attack, or whether Planned Parenthood was the intended target.

The incident went on for five hours after the shooter had holed up with an assault rifle inside a windowless office. The cops seemed to be taking the new aggressive approach to active shooters.

On the police scanner one officer could be heard to say, “We’re exchanging gunfire. We are trying to keep him pinned down.” The reply over the radio was, “Put gunfire through the walls. Whatever, we got to stop this guy.”

Chicawgo: A march by about 2,000 people yesterday protesting last year’s shooting of a black teenager by a white Chicago cop disrupted shoppers along the city’s “Magnificent Mile” on the busiest shopping day of the year. The march organized in part by the Rev. Jesse Jackson called for the resignation of the police superintendent and the city’s prosecutor.

Laquan McDonald was shot 16 times, many of the bullets hitting him when he was already on the ground, incapacitated. It took the city more than a year to charge Off. Jason Van Dyke with murder, and to release the video that incriminated their cop.

>A 27-year-old gang member has been arrested and charged with murder in the killing of a seven-year-old Chicago boy earlier this month in a hit planned as an act of revenge on the kid’s father. Tyshawn Lee was lured into an alley on Chicago’s South Side and shot dead.

Tough Break: Playing against the Carolina Panthers Thursday, Dallas Cowboy quarterback Tony Romo broke his left collarbone for the second time this year, putting him out for the rest if the season. Romo was playing only his second game after sitting out seven weeks, and seven losses for his team. He’s done for the year and so, apparently, are the Cowboys.

Born in Babylonia: Egyptian antiquity authorities say they are “90% sure” that there is a hidden chamber in King Tutankhamen’s tomb. They have scanned the walls to see if there’s something behind them.

Archaeologist Nicholas Reeves believes that when Tut died at age 19 his remains may have been placed into an outer chamber of what was originally Queen Nefertiti’s tomb.

Florida’s Natural: NPR raises the question of how long the Florida citrus industry can survive as it is devastated by an insect called the Asian psyllid that is killing trees. This year’s crop is expected to be about half what it was four years ago, the lowest in 50 years. The report says the industry is at the tipping point at which processing plants will be shut down and 76,000 jobs will begin to disappear.

Numbers Don’t Lie: Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight blog points out that, for people freaked out that Donald Trump has a chance of becoming president, the numbers are not so scary. The blog says that, “Right now, he has 25 to 30 percent of the vote in polls among the roughly 25 percent of Americans who identify as Republican. (That’s something like 6 to 8 percent of the electorate overall, or about the same share of people who think the Apollo moon landings were faked.)”

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